TAG: UN

Consultation – How to create and maintain civil society space? What works? A Report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is preparing a report of practical recommendations on how to create and maintain the space for civil society to work freely and independently. Read more about the report and the kind of information civil society can contribute here. The deadline is September 30, 2015. As they ask, help […]

The sexual politics landscape in July 2015

In July the hottest topic to be reported on is, undoubtedly, the global controversy that emerged when Amnesty International made public a draft policy defining a new line of work aimed at the protection of the human rights of sex workers, to be approved by the forthcoming meeting of its International Council (beginning on August […]

Loss and gain in recent UN debates on ‘the family’

Since the heyday of preparation for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, Cairo, 1994), UN debates on the family have been contentious. However, since then, as morally conservative views became more vocal and articulate in international arenas, the demise of the Cairo definition on ‘various forms of family’ became one of their main […]

UN Committee on Human Rights discusses the right to life

The UN Committee on Human Rights is developing a new General Comment on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that addresses the right to life. The last General Comment on the topic, adopted in 1982, centered on violations of the right to life resulting from war, acts of mass violence, […]

International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion’s report on the Human Rights Comittee discussion on “The Right to Life”

Human Rights Committee Open Hearing on Article 6 – The Right to Life to develop a General Comment Geneva, 14 July 2015 HERE ARE SOME OF THE SUBMISSIONS: THE FULL TEXTS CAN BE FOUND AT THE LINKS Joint Statement on behalf of human rights organizations from across the globe presented by Center for Reproductive Rights We […]

UN Human Rights Council adopts text on the protection of the family

In early July, UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution concerning the protection of the family, whose text points that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. Sexual Rights Initiative condemned the approval. The resolution also sparked concerns on four UN Special […]

UN report on violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched the report Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

TGEU training on UN human rights mechanisms

TGEU, together with ARC International, would like to invite you to participate in a 3-day UN training, which will take place in Geneva, in the period between 14 September – 2 October 2015. This training is part of TGEU’s strategic objectives for capacity building.The training will bring together activists from the Global South and East […]

International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

SPW joins the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. This is a week to speak aloud of violations, but also to engage in imagining a queer world. Read more.

Sexuality around the world: Main debates

_______________________________________________________ Relevant meetings The V Conference of ILGA-LAC was held in Curitiba, Brazil, from January 26th to 30th, 2010. Regional highlights > Read these information in “Around the World – regional highlights” Also at the regional levels Latin America > Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM) website (information in Eng / Port […]

France launches criminal inquiry into alleged sex abuse by peacekeepers

Prosecutors announce investigation into claims French soldiers raped children on peacekeeping operation in Central African Republic Kim Willsher in Paris and Sandra Laville in London French prosecutors have ordered a criminal investigation into allegations that French peacekeeping soldiers raped children and demanded sex for food in the Central African Republic. The decision follows revelations in […]

Philippines accountable for violations of women’s rights – UN CEDAW Committee

The UN CEDAW released its findings on its inquiry on Manila EO 003 and E0 030, finding the Philippines accountable for grave and systematic violations of women’s rights under the CEDAW Convention. This is only the second inquiry conducted under Article 8 of the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and the first on sexual and reproductive […]